In this study, we examine the relationship between within-firm pay inequality and employee productivity. We use hand-collected data on a sample of S&P 1500 companies from 2018-2022 and find a concave relationship between the relative CEO pay and employee productivity. Consistent with tournament...

We examine if a gender gap persists in executive compensation and if the composition and the determinants of executive compensation for men versus women are the same for the S&P1500 listed firms during the period from 1992 to 2004. This analysis is also extended to high tech firms, where high...

We investigate, using 13 years of data from 1992 to 2004, whether the total values, determinants, and the forms of executive compensation for firms listed on the S&P 500, S&P Mid Cap, and S&P Small Cap index, are the same or different. We also explore whether the above compensation variables...

This paper is a survey of the research on executive compensation from the period between 1995 and 2007, focusing on the most important academic publications in the area. The reason for analysing this period of time and these publications is that we believe that 13 years is enough time to cover a...